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The Mathematics of Populations

Rewley House meeting

The Mathematics of Populations

Saturday 22 June 2019 (All day)

Rewley House, Oxford

The day will look at how mathematics was developed for dealing with populations of various types over the past four hundred years. It will trace studies of life expectancy, concerns about exponential growth, and mathematical models in epidemiology; tools now important for bioscience.

Programme

9.30am. Registration; coffee/tea

10.00am Introduction & welcome

10.05am Raffaele Pisano (University of Lille) On Fibonacci and mathematical conceptual streams in context around the12th to 14th centuries in Italy